avast! Home Edition

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

3.4 / 8 ratings

avast! Linux Home Edition is an antivirus solution for your Amahi HDA. The Home Edition is offered free of charge for home, non-commercial use.

The antivirus kernel of avast! Linux Home Edition is identical to the kernel for Windows systems.

The latest version of the avast! antivirus kernel features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance. You can expect 100% detection of In-the-Wild viruses (viruses already spreading between users) and excellent detection of Trojan horses with minimum false positives.

The kernel is certified by ICSA Labs; it frequently takes part in the tests of Virus Bulletin magazine, often yielding the VB100 award.

Like avast! for Windows, the avast! engine for Linux also features outstanding unpacking support. It can scan inside almost the same number of archives as under Windows, with the exception of MAPI, CAB, ACE, CHM, 7ZIP and NTFS streams. The following archives can be scanned: ARJ, ZIP, MIME (+ all associated formats), DBX (Outlook Express archives), RAR, TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, ZOO, ARC, LHA/LHX, TNEF (winmail.dat), CPIO, RPM, ISO, and SIS. It also supports a number of executable packers (such as PKLite, Diet, UPX, ASPack, FSG, MEW, etc.).

NOTE: avast! Home Edition has to be registered after install and also has to be ran by hand. Updates can be set to run automatically, but that is user defined. All scans must be ran by starting the program in the DE or in terminal.

This app is in status ALPHA and is only available for testing to members of the Amahi Tester Program until the app is stable to become Live.

Want to add your own app or package your favorite app here? Become a contributor and submit apps!